Leadership Challenges And Opportunities In A Global Nonprofit Organization
CARE provides relief and development assistance to over 60 countries around the world. Finding, developing, and promoting leaders takes on whole new dimensions for an organization whose mission is truly to "solve world poverty." Leaders at CARE need to interact effectively with everyone from corporate executives to heads of international (e.g., UN), national, local and community institutions. Barbara will share examples of these challenges and provide insights into how her organization has responded.
Speaker
Barbara Murphy-Warrington
Senior Vice-President
CARE USA
Barbara Murphy-Warrington is the Senior Vice President of CARE USA's global Human Resources Division since April 1998, and is based at its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ms. Murphy-Warrington reports directly to Peter Bell, the CEO & President of CARE USA. She is responsible for working with the Board and Peter Bell, and the Executive Team of which she is a member, on senior leadership development, succession management and CARE’s global commitment to diversity.
Ms. Murphy-Warrington’s division has the mandate for establishing and maintaining an integrated human resources management framework for CARE USA's 12,000 employees in over 45 countries so as to ensure that CARE is an employer of choice amongst international nongovernmental organizations. As part of this re0sponsibility, she and her team recently received seed funding from the Board funding to establish the CARE Academy, a virtual learning institute that supports CARE’s global leadership and learning strategies.
Prior to CARE, Ms. Murphy-Warrington was the Deputy Director of the Office of Human Resources at The Ford Foundation in New York City. She served as liaison between Ford's headquarters and senior representatives of the field offices in the 17 countries where Ford worked. She was primarily responsible for leading the effort to realign the HR function with Ford's organizational goals and mission. As part of her assignment she was a member of a senior cross-divisional team that handled all matters related to opening and closing overseas offices, having worked specifically in Chile, Peru, Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Nambia and Vietnam. Prior to that position, she was Resident Counsel for 10 years in Ford's Office of General Counsel, where she concentrated on domestic and international employment matters, ERISA, contract, tax, and oversight of employment litigation.
From 1984 to 1986, Ms. Murphy-Warrington served as Deputy Attorney General within the New Jersey Attorney General's Office where she provided representation on federal and state matters to a quasi private/public transportation corporation. And from 1983 to 1984, she was a judicial clerk to the Honorable Theodore Botter, who was the presiding judge for a panel of Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court.
Ms. Murphy-Warrington obtained a Bachelor’s in General Science from the University of Kansas, a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University and was served one year as an associate editor for Rutger’s Computer & Technology Law Journal. She also has an LL.M in Tax Law from New York University. She is a member of both the New York and New Jersey Bar Associations and of the International Society of Human Resources, and is a board member of Winning Workplaces, a new nonprofit formed by the New Prospects Family Foundation that has its headquarters in Chicago.